Word: cheneyism
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...useful to tally up the ironies that are piling up outside the Veep's door. Cheney was chosen by Bush as a running mate in 2000 not because he had any visible political assets but because he had no political liabilities. He was believed to be just what Bush needed: a chief operating officer who would give great advice, based on his years of experience, and who, because he had no ambitions for his boss's job, wouldn't have his own agenda. But as it turned out, a lot of his advice, delivered privately, has been poor - and some...
...America's "war on terrorism," while admitting the facility should be closed at some point. Now, it appears that Bush's growing political weakness and pressure from pragmatic elements within his own Administration may be forcing him toward that eventuality sooner rather than later, even as hard-liners like Cheney continue to resist...
...same day that the CIA announced it will soon release hundreds of pages of once-classified documents that detail some of the agency's most closely guarded - and controversial - secrets of old, it was revealed that Vice President Dick Cheney has been resisting even his own Executive Branch's efforts to find out what kind of secret material his office has been stashing away over the last four years...
...Cheney's office, according to a story first reported by the Chicago Tribune, has resisted attempts by a tiny federal agency to compile information - in accordance with an executive order signed by George Bush himself - on the classified documents being held by the Vice President's operation. Cheney's office argued that the Vice President's office, because it has both executive and legislative branch duties, is exempt from the order...
...Cheney's dustup with the normally non-controversial National Archives and Records Administration is the latest reminder that Cheney believes he can play by his own rules. And it probably secures for Cheney a place alongside Richard Nixon in the Washington pantheon of secret-keepers...